Simon Bryan was once rumoured to have said:
> Sorry for the confusion.
> I have user directories on an NT server.
> I have setup AUC and can use it as our Intranet system (provides a great
> range of facilities).
> One of the features of AUC is creating courses that users can access, this
> gives them read access to the course directory - /var/auc/course/coursename
> I can then create a directory in there that I have called users so I have
> /var/auc/course/coursename/users
> The I use smbmount to mount the NT share containg user directories as
> /var/auc/course/coursename/users
> All auc users can then access these directories, however there appears to
> be no security, all files become readable by all.
> I guess what I need is to find info about setting up security on Samba that
> makes sense to me. Do you know of any simple explanantions?
> Samba is not needed by AUC at all, this is just an extra I am trying to
> implement.
Right.
1) smbmount has very little to do with Samba, except that its
distributed with the Samba source. All of the `smbmount' guts are
really the smbfs driver in the kernel. smbmount just handles the
initial connection and authentication.
2) SMB authentication is handled on a connection by connection basis -
so your access on the smbmount share is at the same level of
priveledge as the user you connected to the share as. This differs from
standard NFS, which trusts the client to enforce permissions.
You *might* be able to hack around this general problem this an
automounter.
Or better still, migrate *all* of your home directories to a linux
machine running Samba, NFS mount them on AUC, and Samba can export
"transparently" to the WinNT machine(s).
C.
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